Us Zonies aren't going to get much of a show this time around. I got some
nice photos of the last one using a 60mm refractor that I modified for solar
viewing, based on a design by a Dutch amateur astromoner.
AMTRAK set up a special passenger train out of Chicago for this event and
it was sold out in less than a day:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-amtrak-eclipse-train-illinois-20170812-story.html
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>Hi all,
> How many OM Listers will be able to take in the total solar eclipse in
>a week? My wife will be visiting her sister near Nashville, TN, and will
>see totality of two minutes and forty seconds. I plan on being somewhere
>on the sagebrush flats of Wyoming not too far from Casper--I'll get two
>minutes and thirty seconds of totality. Should be a thrilling 2:30, indeed!
>
> Any camera suggestions? I'll have my Canon 1014 XLS Super 8 movie
>camera on a tripod, and I plan on setting the exposure manually for
>whatever it should be for full daylight and then have the camera do its
>magic single frame per second (or five, or ten, or whatever seconds) and
>get a two plus hour record of the darkening and then lightening of the
>Wyoming landscape compressed into a couple minutes of filming. Gotta do
>the math, here, Deano. I'm thinking of pointing the camera to the south,
>with a fairly wide angle setting, and record what happens on the
>landscape. I'll leave a time-lapse of the moon's actual crossing of the
>sun to the pros.
>
> So when totality comes, what then? My 60-300 Tammy at 300 on the OM
>4T and pointed right at the sun? Any ND filter? Or just say screw it and
>simply stand back and be awed by something I'll never see again?
>
> Whatcha going to be doing next Monday, folks?
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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